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  • China and Germany agree to work on closer commercial ties, end trade tensions

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  • What did they agree upon? Or is it just another propaganda piece by OP?

    Addition:

    Between January and August 2025, German exports to China fell by 13.5%. At the same time, Chinese imports into Germany increased by 8.3%.

    The market share of German carmakers in China's domestic market dropped from 53% in 2022 to 33% now.

  • Poland's prime minister calls weekend rail line explosion near Warsaw act of 'sabotage'

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  • Polish train track that helped transport aid to Ukraine destroyed in ‘act of sabotage,’ prime minister says

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  • Poland's prime minister calls weekend rail line explosion near Warsaw act of 'sabotage'

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  • This is an absurdly weird comment.

  • Poland's prime minister calls weekend rail line explosion near Warsaw act of 'sabotage'

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  • A friendly reminder that 1.5% of Nato countries' GDP will be earmarked for security measures that are considered 'non-military' - e.g., sabotage acts like this one, arson attacks, cyber attacks, ...

  • Brussels opens final negotiations cluster in Albania's EU accession

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  • 'Never' is a long time ...

    The original headline is, "When you deliver, you progress’: EU opens final negotiations cluster with Albania," and the article stresses that, "Together with Montenegro, Albania is now seen as one of the frontrunners in the EU accession process."

    The EU should have a firmer stance in its support for democratic movements in the Balkans imho. Don't know for Albania, but I'm certain it should for Serbia where student protesters have largely been 'left alone.'

    EU officials must press Serbian PM Vucic (a close ally of Russia and China, which both are trying to gain influence in the region), what they have done so far is widely insufficient.

    Albania seems to be better in that respect. Although corruption is for sure a big issue, I hope that new countries (including Moldova, Ukraine, Montenegro, and others ...) will manage to become members soon.

  • Polish train track that helped transport aid to Ukraine destroyed in ‘act of sabotage,’ prime minister says

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  • A friendly reminder that 1.5% of Nato countries' GDP will be earmarked for security measures that are considered 'non-military' - e.g., such sabotage acts and similar crimes like arson attacks, cyber attacks, and things like that.

  • Germany Is Just Making Too Much Money in China to Back Away Now

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  • Bloomberg is mistaken as German (and other European and Western) companies are already adjusting their value chains, namely eliminating Chinese suppliers (one post from today is here: https://feddit.org/post/21744444).

    The Merics data cited in the article is from 2020 - 2024, and the narrative is not accurate. Western companies are moving away from China as they are increasingly aware of the many obstacles within Chinese domestic markets. The Chinese government has no interest in foreign competition, hence its economic policy will artificially block foreign companies.

    One example is Volkswagen, mentioned in the Bloomberg report. Volkswagen already sold its operations in China's Xinjiang region in 2024, after years of mounting pressure to abandon its presence in a region where rights groups have documented abuses against the Uyghur population. Many others have followed or are in the process to do so.

    [Edit typo.]

  • "It is a very positive signal:" China left with tomato paste mountain as sales to Italy collapse

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  • The issue of imported tomatoes from China has long been a major issue in Italy before Trump became president this year. This has nothing to do with Trump.

  • "It is a very positive signal:" China left with tomato paste mountain as sales to Italy collapse

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  • Yes, and it can do it better, too :-)

  • Taiwan's vice president calls for closer EU ties in rare address to international lawmakers

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  • Italy’s centenarians grow in number as another 2,000 reach the milestone

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  • Buon compleanno al nonno!

  • Fatal workplace accidents

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  • Such numbers are not very meaningful if you don't have any context how these accidents happened imho. You also need to apply a much longer time frame if you want make any inferences. For example, one incident such as an explosion in a big factory could dramatically increase the number of a country's fatal occupational injuries or deaths dramatically. It may also depend on the industries in a country (some industries bear a higher risk of deadly accidents than others).

    In 2023, the year after the linked statistics, Malta's fatal accidents went down 1.65, for example.

    It would also be good to have a global comparison, not in the least because many European companies produce in factories in the Global South, but most governments in Asia, Africa, and South America don't release any data, unfortunately.

  • UK: A mother's warning after Temu electric cleaning brush rips out her 3-year-old daughter's hair

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  • No, that's not true.

  • UK: A mother's warning after Temu electric cleaning brush rips out her 3-year-old daughter's hair

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  • Such 'incidients' have been occuring frequently with products from Temu, Shein, and the like. I am wondering why something like that never happens with products bought, say, at local shops or other points of sale where strict product safety laws apply?

  • UK: A mother's warning after Temu electric cleaning brush rips out her 3-year-old daughter's hair

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  • Such 'incidients' have been occuring frequently with products from Temu, Shein, and the like. I am wondering why something like that never happens with products bought, say, at local shops or other points of sale where strict product safety laws apply?

  • Germany's Merz backs EU plan to protect steel sector from Chinese imports

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  • There are a lot of problems in Germany. But this issue here is made in China. It is an example for a failed economic policy in China, not in Germany, that has been hurting its domestic Chinese as well as foreign markets. Even the German unions have been warning about that.

  • Germany's Merz backs EU plan to protect steel sector from Chinese imports

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  • How is German stuff 'overpriced'?

    There may be a lot or reason to criticize German economic policy of recent decades, but this is here a failed Chinese policy. The major issue is there, not here.

  • Germany's Merz backs EU plan to protect steel sector from Chinese imports

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  • China’s subsidization rate is ten times that of OECD countries. In addition to government grants and below market borrowings, measures include subsidized energy prices and preferential tax treatment for steel firms.